Lies, Lies, and More Lies, in History-Illiterate America

By larry beinhart
George Bush – and other Iraq War supporters – have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters – the killing fields –in Cambodia. Here are the facts.

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"We didn't commit it but we, all the great powers, provided the engine that helped create it."Sydney Schanbergformer New York Times correspondentin Cambodia
When George Bush, or anyone else, uses the Cambodian holocaust as a warning of what might happen if America withdraws from Iraq, remember the facts.
Part of the holocaust in Cambodia is directly attributable to American bombing. The 750,000 dead. (Comparable to the number of Iraqis killed by American forces in this war.)
The civil war that led to the victory of the Khmer Rouge came about, at least in part, because of America’s support of Lon Nol.
The “enemy,” the Vietnamese Communists, were the ones who put a stop to the Khmer Rouge.
The United States supported the Khmer Rouge – after their murders, after the genocide. That support helped a civil war continue for another decade. More death, more destruction.

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Bush's "Killing Fields" and the Real Lesson of Vietnam